Talk about music of sick. Music of Gray mans. JASON and Naomi think wrong about music. Think it sound good. Me say gray mans music not good. Make me think of worse than bomb in head. Make me want to smash. Music of gray not good. They say music from me not music. Music from Naomi and Jason like gray mans music with broke strings. Music from girl Katee. Katee tentacle thing. Her music gray mans music, no broke strings. Next time hear sick music, music say who go Prophet, who go monster, who go zombie.

Stopped on way to Jansen’s, Jason said vehicles approach. Nemesis say to take alive, so I run at them. Cycle rider in lead fall off cycle. Car still chasing. So I charge car. Car hit me. Car wrecked. Shook people out of car. They ran. Naomi helped woman who falled off bike.

She was from Jansen’s. Say hundreds of raiders around Jansen’s. Infected within. Much talk about what to do. Then more car sounds. Big masked man got out of car. Naomi took my arm and walked towards. Man waved white cloth. Said had story to tell. I like stories. Others not trust him. I ask him to tell story.

Man say he woke up from nightmare. Saw Lunk foot crushing to death. Knew Jess Hex dead. I said sorry about squish, squish bad thing. She made Lunk mad. He not sorry. He happy she dead. Said do worse than bomb in head to masked man head. She dead not have to obey. Not have to siege, be mean and shoot people in face. Others say he should just go. Say not so easy. Many raiders hungry. Many raiders look to him as boss. Need excuse to go. Said should fake fight me. Me not know how to fake fight.

Much talk. They not trust mask wearing man. Lunk think man not lie. Lunk had worse than bomb in head and bomb in head. Lunk know. Too much talk for Lunk. After long talk, Raziel make nice to Nemesis. She agree to do good thing, make raiders stop raidering. Make Jansen’s sell to raiders. Nemesis Naomi Raziel need to get into Jansen’s. Told them could dig in. They afraid of digging. Want to fly. Lunk think fly get shot. Tell them he go loud and let mask man theater fight at him. Big noise. Raiders not look at them, raider look at Lunk. They agree.

Gathered by big truck to bring people to Jansens. They make trailer in back for me to ride. Nice people. Strange talking guy named Igor replace Doctor Sharpe. Also crazy. Also have laser gun and white coat. Scientist must mean crazy guy with laser gun.

Many raiders shot at us, some have bikes, and cars. One is weird shouty woman. Not take long for us to beat them. Igor badly cut by chainsaw. Igor crazy. I try to keep between bad people and Igor. Trapped them in my spike wire trick. Igor ran around me, got self chopped up by raider. Then he not let Raziel heal.

Others do much talking with shouty lady. I not understand it all. She did something to Raziel head and to Naomi head. They got better, but not happy. Not agree on what to do with brain hurting raider woman. I asked if like bomb in head. Igor said worse than bomb in head.

Freed prisoners want return almost home. Not go home, home burnt by raiders. Almost home is Jansen enclave. They tell stories all alike. Raiders attacked. Take away. Raiders give people to URA. URA jab with medicine, put on train. Some taken off train. Them gone.

Group from Belleville talk about what to do. Try to get frozen girl to come with. She scared. Talk about other people and medicine. Dr. Sharpe and Jason (odd guy from train) talk medicine, say that it not medicine, it infected blood. URA making infected. Making Prophets? People from train not safe. URA want to find. Infected blood made different by URA?

Nemesis talk to people from train, tell them not safe to go Jansens. They agree to come to quarantine. Even scared frozen girl with no name agree to come. All go to empty brick building. Say it school.

I like “quarantine”. People not run, stay and talk. I practice spiky stay still move, use to keep angry people with guns close. So not shoot squishy people.

Dr Sharpe show scary pictures on small machine to frozen girl. She scream. Bad things in head. Bad things from past. Tell her not to think of past, past only pain and sadness. Raziel agree. Raziel give frozen girl new name, Naomi. Naomi ok name, not as good as Jenny. But me not talk good like Raziel. No one like my name idea.

Jason and Dr Sharpe make much confusing talk. Not understand, but they happy about ways to blow things up. Maybe blow up people in forts. Not nice. Do I need to bonk on heads to make nicer?

Show Naomi training field. She strong. Show her how to throw car, she stand too close, hit with bumper. Sorry about hit with car. She got up and heal fast, like me, but not made of metal. Better for her, maybe people not shoot her in face like me.

Days go by. Happy time talking and training in quarantine over. King come to school. Say people from train ok to leave. Say bye bye, most go to Jansen’s.

King say to us, need to look for URA who fall off train. Need to look for where train come from for missing infected/prophets. Need to check on Jansen’s in case of URA. Jansen’s less good to me. Shooted at me. Not talk to me, just shooted. Happy to stop URA, not like URA. Happy to not be all by self. Even shiny rock dull when too long with only shiny rock.

[scratched into wall of basement of ruin at edge of town where Lunk sleeps]

January 15, 2119

Like nice people who talk to me and not try to shoot in face, or put bomb in head. Keep giving me bullets for moving stuff. I give bullets back so bullets don’t go crunch and hurt people. Shouty order guy asked me to help against URA. I hate URA, they blowed up my head and made me forget. Happy to help.

Met new people in big building. Weird holy guy named Raziel. Pretty lady in black named Nemesis. Shouty guy said she in charge. Wispy guy in white coat named Doctor something. Job is go to train in trucks. Free people from train. Not hurt people. Not wreck train. Not talk about Belleville. Ok orders. Not mean like URA orders.

Squishy people drived us to train on car that go on tracks. Nemesis pointed out big gun on top train. She good boss to me. I jumped on the train and threw URA people away from big gun. As gentle as I could, but people very breakable. Think they will get better later. Others followed onto train, Raziel flew on with pretty wings, very nice to see. More URA with guns shot at us. Big ugly URA Prophet climb into train ahead. Nemesis said to stop him, so jumped towards. Fragile train roof broke. Climbed out. Big ugly thing try to hurt me, so grabbed it and threw it off train.

More URA men with guns hurt Nemesis. Try to help, but they run away. Big Ugly jump onto back of train. Grabbed and threw off again. Not come back. More URA try to get big gun. Nemesis say to smash big gun, so jump up and down on it. Break train roof again, but broke gun. Sorry about train.

Seed Nemesis in car ahead, asked what to do next. Said back up to stop URA with guns. Jumped up, crunched back through fragile roof. Sorry about train. Climbed up and charged little men. Many many men shot me in face. Hurt a little. Shot in chest with rocket, itched a little. Doctor guy shot rocket back at big crowd, hurt many, scared many. They split train cars to leave us behind.

Not see in front cars so not know if prisoners in. Not see Nemesis for orders. Leaped onto fleeing train car, smashed through roof. No prisoners. Looked in front car, full of engine and little URA men begging me to leave them alone. No prisoners. Left to find Nemesis for new orders.

Found new guy in train car, he was not in big metal building when job orders given. Bloody clothing, but not hurt. Not wearing URA clothing. Think he another Prophet. Standing by cold case, said it was gray man thing. Leaking cold. Said I should wait to see if thing inside dangerous. Case opened, contained small cold frightened woman. Doctor happy to see her, said her name is Maia. She not know own name. Did URA blow up her head? Her head not look like it had been blowed up. She last prisoner to free.

Put prisoners in trucks and drived away. Job done. Some URA were hurt, but Doctor guy did most hurting, not me. I hurt train a lot. Hard not to hurt train, made of thin metal. Wonder if shouty guy will yell at us.

New people ok. Not try to hurt me or tell me to do bad things. Too squishy, will try to keep between them and angry people with guns next time.